A General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1

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Whittaker & Company, 1838

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Page xliii - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.
Page xliii - Family Shakspeare : In which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 70 - Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies; with a Description of Original Experiments relative to that Subject — a work remarkable for its perspicuity, and the extensive information which it affords.
Page xliii - His lordship did indeed make several efforts to speak, but could only repeat two or three words at a time, such as, ' My wife ! my child! my sister! you know all — you must say all — you know my wishes ;' the rest was quite unintelligible.
Page 5 - Typographical Antiquities: being an historical account of printing in England; with some memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them from the year 1471 to 1500. With an appendix concerning printing in Scotland and Ireland to the same time.
Page 20 - He entered early into the navy. In 1716 he served as second lieutenant under Sir John Norris, in the Baltic; and, in 1717 and 1718, under Sir George Byng, against the Spaniards. In his 27th year he was raised to the rank of post-captain, and was for a long time on the South Caroline station.
Page 7 - The Bishop of Durham readily answered, ' God forbid, Sir, but you should. You are the breath of our nostrils.' Whereupon the King turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester, 'Well, my lord, what say you ? ' ' Sir/ replied the Bishop, ' I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary cases." The King answered, ' No put-offs, my lord ; answer me presently.
Page 89 - My lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Page 92 - The general object of Robert Bage's compositions, is rather to exhibit character, than to compose a narrative ; rather to extend and infuse his own political and philosophical opinions, in which a man of his character was no doubt sincere, than merely to amuse the reader with the wonders, or melt him with the sorrows, of a fictitious tale.

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